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title: But during the night Tiny could not sleep; so she got out of bed and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But during the night Tiny could not sleep; so she got out of bed and wove a large, beautiful carpet of hay; then she carried it to the dead bird, and spread it over him; with some down from the flowers which she had found in the field-mouse's room. Who acts: Tiny. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 96

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But during the night Tiny could not sleep; so she got out of bed and wove a large, beautiful carpet of hay; then she carried it to the dead bird, and spread it over him; with some down from the flowers which she had found in the field-mouse's room.

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**Who acts:** Tiny · **What happens:** not sleep, get out, weave, carry, spread, find · **To what, where:** bed, large beautiful carpet, carpet, dead bird, flowers, room

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiny), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:79:96
# text = But during the night Tiny could not sleep; so she got out of bed and wove a large, beautiful carpet of hay; then she carried it to the dead bird, and spread it over him; with some down from the flowers which she had found in the field-mouse's room.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	during	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	wove	weave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	over	over	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	43	nsubj	_	_
43	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
53	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	's	's	PART	POS	_	55	case	_	_
57	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sleep** | could | Tiny |  |  |  | night | down *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get out** | past | Tiny | bed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **weave** | past | Tiny *not said here* | a large beautiful carpet of hay |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carpet=Product |
| 4 | **carry** | past | Tiny | carpet | the dead bird |  | then |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to bird=Destination |
| 5 | **spread** | past | Tiny *not said here* | carpet |  |  |  | over man | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over he=Destination |
| 6 | **find** | past · perfect · passive |  | the flowers |  | the field mouse's room |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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